Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-11-16

A VIRGINIA zinc mine company is
working on eight-foot zinc vein OF I'M
known depth at a profit OF S12 per
ton.
A NINE-vear-old grapevine owned by
8 farmer near Martinez, CAL, has
borne two tons of grapes this sea-
son.
A TEXAS jury gave 8 verdict of 49,
rs in favor of man whose dog had
been run over and killed by a railroad
train.
TWELVE members of the Philadel-
phia police force have been lately dis
charged for refusing to wear over
coats.
Four thousand notaries were ap-
pointed by Gov. Ross and confirmed
by the Texas Legislature at it's last
session.
AN odd pair of twins was born at
the Summit County (O.) Infirmary,
one of the babies being black and the
other white.
A READING penn man has q ring
dove which has been Gagged since 1865,
and it gives promise of living many
more years.
The Sprinqvale Advocate says,
pointedly: "The woman who lost her
bangs can find them where she pulled
up the plants"
THE architect in aremodeled church
in Camden is said to have over
looked the choir, for which he had
provided no place.
A PET parrot, whose owner died
lately, at Charlottestown, Prince Ed
ward Island, refused all food, and has
since died in his cage.
THE mountain of tin discovered
near Custer City, D. t., is said to be
the most extensive body OF tin yet
found in the Black Hills.
THE ALMA (Kansas) coal hole is
black diamonds fifteen inches thick
has been passed through.
THE school commissioners of Louis.
vile have decided upon a post-gradu-
ate for girls, to include type writing,
Bookkeeping and short hand.
A TEXAS paper says that camels,
both wild and tame, are to be found
in that state. They are the offspring
of number imported from Arabia in
1852.
WHILE digging cellar at Glen Cove,
L. I. a few days ago, workmen un-
earthed a tombstone bearing the in.
scription: sc. E. c., February 5,
1922"
A MINNEAPOLIS woman was fined
$40 for breaking her umbrella over
the head of g. street masher, but the
public sent her over 5000 to pay her
fine with.
A WHITE horse in Michigan is at
tracing attention without the aid of
the red-headed girls. He visits q sa.
loon every day for his glass of beer
and gets it.
JAMES MURPHY stole case of cigars
from the dock of the Oregon Improve.
ment Company in San Francisco. An
officer discovered him hiding in bed
between his two sisters.
THE fibre derived from the inner
bark of young mulberry shoots is said
to yield q fabric much finer and softer
than cotton, and which, when woven,
very much resembles silk
The Iowa Wesleyan University of
Mount Pleasant will soon sport a
military company among it's oJher So
cieties. A drillmaster from West
Point has been promised.
AN Indian Spring FLA woman has
q hen that is covered with hair in
stead of feathers. 1t lays and has
Matched chickens coated like herself,
but they invariably died in infancy.
AN Orange IN. J. shoemaker found
diamonds valued at $4,000 in apair
of shoes sent him for repairs. The
stones had been put In the shoes for
safety by the owner and then forgot
ten.
BEFORE Mrs. Theresa Wall, OF
Sweetwater, Tenn, committed suicide
she had prepared g. certified check
that would meet her funeral expenses
and erect monument over her
grave.
AT New Britain, Conn.,, II. E. Smith
has novelty in the apple tree line.
The apples are rather small, very
hard and smooth, with bright yellow
skin, and pulp the color of the pulp
of watermelon.
SEVERAL DAYS ago cougar CAugHC
ard killed Duff Green's fine pointer
dog on Salmon River, I. t., and only
released it's hold when the canine's
owner showed the muzzle of his gun
into his hide and blew him to pieces.
A MYSTERIOUS disease, fatal alike to
hogs, cattle, and horses, prevails on g.
few stock farms in the vicinity of
Davisville, Yolo County, Cal. The
symptoms are swellingIof the throat